This week in The Fin podcast, senior writer Neil Chenoweth and professional services editor Edmund Tadros on the tax controversy engulfing PwC, how the story broke, who was involved and what happens from here.

Required reading:

• Panic at PwC: how a tax scandal played out behind closed doors In the space of 10 days, an almost daily drumbeat of bad news has reduced the firm and its reputation to a level its partners could have barely imagined at the start of the month.
• The inside story of PwC’s tax scandal The consultancy is facing one of the biggest crises in its history following revelations that dozens of PwC operatives used confidential updates on government tax plans to drum up new clients. This is how it happened.
• For your eyes only: How PwC leaks helped global clients dodge tax Accounting giant PwC Australia charged $2.5 million in fees to advise 14 clients how to sidestep new multinational tax avoidance laws in 2016.